Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remains discovered in North America so far were found by chance. Howard Wilson, 17, amateur collector of arrowheads, was scratching around near his Laguna Beach home in 1933 when he uncovered a skull. His mother suggested the garbage pail as a suitable receptacle; Howard stoutly held out for a shoe box and eventually gave his find to a museum. Many years and expert examinations later, it was established that the "girl from Laguna" had lived between 15,000 and 18,000 years...
Food was running low that winter in the Klondike, and the jumpy little hero of the 1925 hit, The Gold Rush, was reduced to dining on boiled shoe. In London to work on the music for some of his old movies that he is rereleasing...
Penn is not a shoe-in for the Ivy title, for the Quakers still must face Cornell. But even if the Ivy championship is lost, the season is far from ended. Probably the players would be the first to admit that the Ivy title has left this team dissatisfied with itself. It is the national title that is in the back of Harvard's mind, and that goal has not been affected...
...stones and glass shards, streets, ladders, and the paths in the rough earth go on teaching the foot it cannot fly. cannot be a fruit swollen on the branch. Then, the child's foot was defeated, fell in the battle, was a prisoner condemned to live in a shoe...
...none of these events occurred, and the result may have been unsought and undeserved martyrdom for a shoe-worker and a fish-peddler who happened to be Italian immigrants with radical sympathies. The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was undoubtedly the most significant of this century. Its world-wide repercussions rivaled those of the Dreyfus case in France. for the larger part of a decade it commanded the interest and emotion of millions of people both here in America and throughout Europe...